Both duplicate buildings were designed by the same russian architect – Lew Rudnev. According to russian plans Beijing It'd be shorter. – Over the next Defilad Square was flown by a two-plane Corn airplane and marked the tallness of the Palace of Culture and Science. On the another side of the Vistula River there were Polish decision-makers who communicated with the pilot via a walkie-talkie and ordered to emergence higher and higher. Originally the Palace was to be lower and to be only 160 m high, but our authorities decided that a building was created higher by almost 30 m – translated Ewelina Dudziak from PKiN in Warsaw. 46 million bricks and 46,000 tons of steel were utilized to build it, with over 3,000 rooms and 42 floors and mysterious undergrounds. To get from the main entrance to the View Terrace on the 30th floor, you gotta beat 789 stairs! ‘(...) – Don't come in. Electromagnetic radiation – a card with specified inscription hangs on the door leading to the 40th level of the Palace of Culture and Science. There is 1 of the largest clocks in Europe, visible from almost all point in the center of Warsaw. The diameter of his shield is over 6 m. The shield itself with the clue weighs 450 kg. The hourly tip is 2.7 m and the minute tip is almost a metre longer – 3.54 m.
The clock is regularly cleaned. Maintenance work takes place twice a year. The outer mechanics is preserved in summer. The interior mechanics is very interesting due to the fact that it is not a typical gear system. It is simply a tiny can controlled by a radio signal from a satellite that sets the clock (...). On the 15th floor, letters are collected, which are addressed to the Palace of Culture and Science. There's over a 100 of them. They wrote children believing that since it was the highest building in Poland, Santa Claus lived on a needle. They wrote people from tiny towns and villages who asked for intervention, including a mountaineer surviving close Nowy Targ complained that the neighbour had taken up his township and asked the Palace of Culture for help. any even wrote Dear Palace, help. (...)”.
